Raspberry Pi

A guide to hacking on the Raspberry Pi, a microcomputer that runs a full stack Linux OS, all on a mobile processor:

Installing

Instructions for installing an operating system on the Raspberry Pi: RaspberryPi/Installing

After Installing: Interfacing with Headless Pi

Instructions for interfacing with headless Raspberry Pis, including how to change their boot sequence to find them on a network: RaspberryPi/Headless

After Installing: First Steps with Pi

You can find a guide to your first steps with Raspberry Pi, mainly covering the setup process for Raspbian Linux: RaspberryPi/First Steps

Raspberry Pi Projects

Hardware Focus

Most recent projects listed first.

Making an Internet of Things Morse Code Keyer with Raspberry Pi

Combining the morse code example below with Flask, a lightweight web server for Python, allows us to create an API for remotely controlling the Raspberry Pi. We can then use the Raspberry Pi to send morse code with the LED.

Here are the details: RaspberryPi/IoT Morse Code Keyer

Morse Code on Raspberry Pi

This page has more details on a quick-and-easy way to get a Morse code library I wrote in Python up and running on the Raspberry Pi: RaspberryPi/Morse Code

Raspberry Pi Timelapse Photo

You can find a short guide to how I built a Raspberry Pi time lapse photo camera here:

RaspberryPi/Timelapse

Hello World LED Circuit with GPIO

This project controls a simple LED circuit with the Raspberry Pi's onboard GPIO cable: Hello World Raspberry Pi

This project uses a python code to send high/low voltage signals to pins on the GPIO, and make an LED on a breadboard blink.

Software Focus

Run Web Server on Pi

You can find a guide to running a lightweight web server with Flask or something similar:

RaspberryPi/Web Server

Kali Linux on Raspberry Pi

Getting deeper into the world of networking and using the Pi for security and networking applications:

Kali Raspberry Pi

Powering the Pi via UART/Serial

UART = Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmit

While you can normally interface with and power the Pi by plugging it into a computer or a wall wart via the mini USB port, you can also power the Pi via the pins on the board, and communicate with the Pi via a serial connection. This uses the 5V, Ground, TX, and RX pins that are on the right side (the 5V side) of the pins on the Pi board.

By plugging these into a USB serial adapter, which is plugged into a computer, the connection can be used to provide power and a connection to the Pi.

More details: http://villagescience.org/running-raspberry-pi-usb-serial-ttl-adapter/

Notes by Date

Raspberry Pi 2015-07-29 - basic hello world

Raspberry Pi 2015-07-30 - basic hello world writeup

Raspberry Pi 2015-07-31 - morse code writeup, Flask Web API to control hardware

Resources

• http://raspberry.io/wiki/how-to-get-python-on-your-raspberrypi/